A local conference held by the Carolina Chapter of the National Classification Management Society (NCMS), providing national security experts to speak on current threats and challenges facing corporate America today.

If you are an Industrial Security Officer, IT Security professional, Program Manager, Corporate, Legal or Academia Officer this is a “can’t miss” opportunity to hear experts in the area of National Security speak about the current threats and challenges facing Corporate America today.

Summit Details

The summit will be held at North Carolina National Guard (NCNG) Joint Forces Headquarters (JFHQ).

The Honorable John P. Carlin was the Assistant Attorney General for National Security from April 2014 through October 2016. As AAG, Mr. Carlin oversaw nearly 400 employees responsible for protecting the country against international and domestic terrorism, espionage, cyber, and other national security threats. Mr. Carlin joined the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Security Division after serving as Chief of Staff and Senior Counsel to Robert S. Mueller, III, Director of the FBI, where he helped lead the Bureau’s evolution to meet growing and changing national security threats, including cyber threats. A career federal prosecutor, Mr. Carlin previously served as National Coordinator of Dept. of Justice’s Computer Hacking and Intellectal Property program and as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, where he prosecuted cases ranging from homicide and sexual offenses to cyber, fraud, and public corruption matters.

Dr. Vince Houghton, Historian and Curator at the International Spy Museum

Dr. Houghton specializes in military and intelligence history, with specific expertise on late-WWII and early-Cold War eras. He has a PhD in Diplomatic and Military History from the University of Maryland, where his research centered on US scientific and technological intelligence (nuclear intelligence) in the Second World War and early Cold War. His Masters, also from the University of Maryland, focused on the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union. He has taught extensively at the middle school, high school, and university level, most recently at the University of Maryland, where he taught courses on the history of US Intelligence, US Diplomatic History, the Cold War, and the History of Science. Vince is a veteran of the United States Army, and served in the Balkans, where he worked closely with both civilian and military intelligence agencies in several capacities.